Czech court endorses EU treaty

Klaus had argued against the Lisbon Treaty, saying it could turn the EU into a super state [EPA]

'Enormous changes'

He has said the treaty could turn the EU into a super state with little democratic control.

Klaus sought an opt-out from the treaty nearly three weeks ago, after Prague's parliament ratified it, in an attempt to ensure the treaty would not allow ethnic Germans expelled from former Czechoslovakia after the second world war to reclaim their property.